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India not pushing Maldives to do anything unconstitutional: Waheed
Monday May 14, 2012 06:49:35 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Assuring
the world that his nation was committed to democracy, Maldivian
President Mohamed Waheed, who is on his first official visit to
India, said Monday New Delhi was not pushing the Indian Ocean
atoll nation to do anything "unconstitutional" on holding
presidential elections.
Waheed, who was propelled to the Maldivian presidency under
extraordinary circumstances after incumbent Mohamed Nasheed
resigned on Feb 7 following a police rebellion, said he was
personally committed to holding early elections, but reiterated
that political consensus was eluding the coalition government.
"I can assure you that Maldives is committed to democracy. I
assure you there is no threat to democracy in Maldives," Waheed
said at a press conference on the third day of his five-day visit
to India and after holding talks with the top Indian political
leadership on the troubled situation in his country.
"I am personally in favour of early elections. But, except for
Nasheed's party, all other parties in the country are against
elections before July 2013. Also, the constitution has to be
amended for holding early elections and for that we need
two-thirds majority. This is unlikely to happen now," Waheed said.
Asked for India's response to the situation in Maldives during his
talks with the leadership here, including Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh, Waheed said: "India is not pushing us to do anything that
is against our constitutional."
Waheed is in India within three weeks of Nasheed visiting here to
drum up support for his call for early presidential polls.
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